It's been a rough year for the Idaho football program, but the Vandals are ending it on a high note.

Idaho (8-4) has qualified for a bowl game in what is its second-to-last year playing major college football.

The Vandals were unceremoniously kicked out of the Sun Belt Conference earlier this year, and the administration decided it had had enough of FBS football and chose to become the first program in modern times to voluntarily drop to the FCS ranks.